Healthy Dieting

You are about to enter a whole new world of health, good looks, energy and fat loss. It’s called Ketogenics.

Within the first two weeks on Ketogenics, you are likely to lose a remarkable amount of weight, usually between 4 and 12 pounds if you are a woman, and 8 to 16 pounds if you are a man. From then on, you can steadily shed from % to 2 pounds of stored fat a week, while you marvel at your body reshaping itself to a new sleek firmness without hunger. More importantly, during the next few weeks you can discover just how wonderful it is possible to feel following a high-nutrient/low-carbohydrate diet. Read the rest of this entry »

Calorie-restricted diets don’t work. First, they leave you hungry, so there is always an internal battle going on as to whether you stay on the diet or not. Secondly, they don’t correct the underlying metabolic imbalances in your body that have caused you to store fat in your tissues. These stores have probably developed over a lifetime of eating a high-carbohydrate diet – especially the wrong kind of dense, refined carbohydrates. Read the rest of this entry »

Safer Burgers?

Although fast-food burgers contaminated with a dangerous strain of E. coli bacteria made headlines overseas several years ago, many fast-food chains now do some microbial testing, so their burgers may be safer than those served at home. Local authorities also enforce health by-laws and react to complaints from the public. Read the rest of this entry »

Steady sellers in the weight-loss industry are meal-replacement drinks. They come in liquid form or in powders that you mix with milk or water. Their low-fat protein sources (such as soya) combined with high-fibre ingredients, vitamins and minerals give you a balanced meal with a controlled number of kilojoules. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve heard it a thousand times—fad diets are bad for you. The fact is, they don’t even work; they rarely, if ever, yield a weight loss that lasts for long. What’s worse, they can wreck your health. Read the rest of this entry »

Losing weight is easy. A lot of people do it every day. What’s tough is keeping it off. Restrictive diets may work in the short term. So may some diet aids. But soonthe weight returns.

There is only one proven way to lose weight and keep it off: make basic, simple changes in what you eat, how much you eat and how much you exercise. These changes should become part of your everyday life, so think ahead: Could you take a walk and eat an apple daily for the next year? Yes? Read the rest of this entry »

Take a look at a typical Westernized diet—-you’d swear we needed to get a megadose daily allowance of cholesterol. Well we don’t. Our liver makes most of the cholesterol we need; the substance is in all of our tissues and is a component of cell membranes and nerves. Raising cholesterol levels through diet increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. With cholesterol, less is better. Read the rest of this entry »

But before you jump on the growth hormone bandwagon and rush off to have injections at your nearest clinic, you should know that by far the most powerful rejuvenating effects from increased levels of human growth hormone are brought about by changes in the way you eat and live. Read the rest of this entry »

Because your body is genetically programmed to move, not getting enough physical activity carries a heavy price tag in terms of health, energy, emotional balance and looks. And if you have avoided physical activity as much as possible for many years, the good news is it’s never too late to reap its benefits. Read the rest of this entry »

Did you ever begin a weight loss diet only to discover you were overcome by chronic fatigue and constant hunger? This is probably because you were following a low-fat regime. Low-fat diets are notorious for being virtually impossible to keep to for long, since low- fat foods just do not satisfy. These diets can also be dangerous. Since so many of your body’s tissues, hormones and all of its cells are dependent on a good supply of essential fats, a low-fat regime undermines your overall health. And it doesn’t enhance your good looks – those fatty acid deficiencies also cause your body to age prematurely. Read the rest of this entry »

Carbohydrates, or “carbs,” are the fuels your body runs on. Whether you eat whole-wheat bread or sweets, your body turns the carbohydrates in those foods into blood sugar or glucose. Does that mean both foods are equally good sources of energy? Hardly. The bread is the better value, supplying fuel to your body over a longer period of time. The sweets short-change your body, providing energy only for a short time. Read the rest of this entry »

Where aerobic exercise strengthens the heart and lungs, weight training goes far beyond. In the past five years an enormous number of studies have been carried out where the health of people in all age groups has been assessed before and after weight training. The results are amazing. Read the rest of this entry »

The best way to lose weight permanently is to follow a healthy eating plan and combine it with regular exercise. A healthy diet is: Read the rest of this entry »

Good nutrition is essential for good health. Everything we eat is broken down into its basic nutrients: carbohydrates into glucose, protein into amino acids and fats into fatty acids and glycerol. Read the rest of this entry »

By going right back to the beginning, when we enjoyed a fully balanced diet consisting of all the nutrient-rich foods Mother Nature has to offer, when not any one f the macronutrients was being singled out and maligned. Making fat or protein or starch the fiend in the obesity stakes is the most commonly used trick of the quick-fix diet gurus and the basis of many, many low-kilojoule diets. Read the rest of this entry »

In order to understand the importance of CLA in the diet, lets examine the reasons why slimming diets continue to fail and why the low-kllojoule, quick-fix diet principle has become a major player in the obesity stakes. As you know, low-kilojoule diets seldom produce the desired results, And if they do, its extremely difficult to keep the lost weight off. Read the rest of this entry »

The danger of eating too much fat is compounded by the fact that we take in too little of the good fats that actively assist our bodies towards health and leanness, Unfortunately it is true that we avoid the good fats found in avocados, nuts, oily fish and seeds such as sesame-, linseed and sunflower, because we deem them too fattening. Many of us don’t even use raw virgin olive oil in our cooking. Read the rest of this entry »

Many experts claim that in order to maintain a constant weight, one’s intake of kilojoules from fat should not exceed 30% of your total kilojoule intake, I find this impossible to implement in everyday life, because it would entail counting all the consumed kilojoules as well as the fat kilojoules in order to arrive at the percentage fat intake. Which would mean carrying with you a calculator and using it every time you eat a meal or even a morsel, all day long. Read the rest of this entry »

Why do sugar and starch evoke such heated debates about their effects on our bodies? Most dieticians will argue this issue passionately: starch is not the food group that causes obesity; fat is. Read the rest of this entry »

List, with as much detail as you can, how it benefits you to be in control of your addictive eating and what it costs you to be out of control. Put the emphasis on health and wellbeing, rather than appearance. Keep the list somewhere safe, private and easily accessible, like a Filofax, diary or jewellery box. Refer to it often, adding to it as you go along. These are notes to yourself in the future, if you forget. Read the rest of this entry »